tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post5179084970769925883..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Weekend Reading: The I Wish People Were Better Than This EditionCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-52705385527987551102014-01-26T07:35:30.837-08:002014-01-26T07:35:30.837-08:00Wake County is a really interesting case, not unif...Wake County is a really interesting case, not uniformly good. I'm no expert but do a quick Google Scholar search on Wake County school assignment and you'll turn up a bunch of things published around 2005. I think that in the past maybe five years parents (affluent, mostly white) have elected a school board that has largely dismantled the economically integrated (I'm oversimplifying!) schools Wake had created. Of course this is later than what you write about in your comment! <br /><br />(The local funding of schools and associated property tax issues and home value issues, are clearly a big obstacle to more equal education in the US at the K-12 level, at the risk of stating the obvious)Alexicographernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-64418047381360232452014-01-25T06:57:55.230-08:002014-01-25T06:57:55.230-08:00Actually a lot of this stuff was legislated. It i...Actually a lot of this stuff was legislated. It isn't anymore. There are also a lot of problems with that model. In the end minorities still get the short end of the stick when it comes to public education. Unconscionable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-43206387044418217732014-01-25T06:44:26.751-08:002014-01-25T06:44:26.751-08:00I grew up in Raleigh, NC, and when I was a student...I grew up in Raleigh, NC, and when I was a student, the schools there had put the various magnet programs in the historically African American schools/neighborhoods. So white families that wanted to send their children to those magnet programs bused their kids into the historically minority neighborhoods, rather than the other way around. Districts can do these things in a smart way if they choose to. Obviously, many didn't. Laura Vanderkamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06385504652419979583noreply@blogger.com